Good evening. My name is trevor fromhe boston book festival. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoons 2020 session, can business save the world. I would especiall like to think everyone including a donation en they register for this free event. It would like to purchase the book by todays presenters, were also suppoing independent bookstores in the bbf, which made it easy. Just cli by t book linkt the bottom of the screen. No i like to talk about them moderator, cofounder of fsg and the author of influential publicions on sharealue catalytic herapy, strategic evuations and impact insting. Thank you trevor and it is wonderful to be here and these ar two outstanding womanhood just written two books the long and a book shelf. Where used to thinking about business as being the source of so any problems in the world today. Its quite refreshing to he a panel that talks abo whether business can save the world and while that is a large and openended question. Trevor our two authors tod
The nasdaq just inches up. 2 . It spent a lot of time being way down of what a very ugly swoon the house of pain. I get it values is lagged investors are dumping gross stocks at some point today it is pretty much breathtaking fashion. Someone watching these rotations coming and goes over decades of observations tell me how it works well before we gotten the opening bell around 4 00, 4 15 every stock seems to be indicated higher it looks like a big broad base movement that could reverse a huge chunk of last week selloff between five and six being led by tech. There is just one problem. Inge investors have no idea whats coming in the next 48 or 72 hours or however long it takes to count the vote. Everyone is sick of the election they want to make some money in spite of it not because of it. I dont think anything will withstand the fire in the actual Election Results at least not the short term. Traders are determined to make money everyday they are refused to be deter by the virus or the
Joe biden got through all 90 minutes without a gaffe or no senior moment and enough energy to say to the president overshot up man. He called him a racist, a liar and the worst american president ever. Mr. Trump came on strong, perhaps too strong, he may have brought sympathy after he attacked his sons drug use. Key issues were lost in the fight, biden were not answer questions about packing the Supreme Court, he was wrong about the economy under President Trump, he tried to walk away from the green new deal, i wouldve liked to heard more about that, the president would not condemn white supremacist and did not fully answer questions about healthcare. My opinion, nobody one, voters who wanted a fight lost. Right after the debate stocks sold off, features showed a 300point loss for the dow but it has come back, perhaps because a lot more talk about a new stimulus plan and a good jobs report from adp, we are looking at a 50point loss for the dow, Minor Leagues loss for the s p and the na
Loathe last nights debate, you know who loved it . The stock market which is why the dow surged 329 points today and nasdaq advanced 4. 7 what did the candidates say that got wall street so excited honestly, its more about what they didnt say, a lot of investors were worried trump and biden would try to score points. These companies if you dont plan to do anything about them not this time. When the candidates lay off the health care sector, the stocks roar one of my favs runs government sponsored health plan and does it better than anybody guess what happened . Stocks zoomed 4 . Anthem, cigna, united health, even cvs managed to rally. My trust owns it follow along by joining the actionalertsplus. Com club. Its been awful. Own your mistakes. We just bought more. 3. 4 yield i have parsed every word of that debate that was hard if you read the transcripts, it was bad. Chris wallace often picked on who told the president quote you in the course of these four years have never come up with a
The concern about the stronger currency, not to worry just yet. We saw that euro jump. Ist weakness on brexit sparking a rebound in the dollar. Your offshore renminbi, we are set to break six weeks of gains. 683 right now. That is below 40 right now. We have copper also and gold on the back foot. Oil prices on track for the biggest twoweek drop since what we saw back in april. Lets get to the first word news, we have Karina Mitchell. Senate democrats have shut down a relief plan proposed by republicans. They failed to get the 60 votes they needed. Estimatedican plan is at anywhere between 500 and 700 billion dollars. The democrats are proposing to. 2 trillion. 2. 2 trillion. Boris johnsons government refused to scrap plans to reignite the divorce accord. The eu is threatening legal action if the u. K. Does not drop the legislation within three weeks. Thes president has painted an optimistic picture. Economic data suggests a strong rebound. They kept policy on hold for Economic Contract